New poll has Darcy up 47 to 40!

The Darcy Burner campaign has seemed awfully cheerful in recent days, and now we know why. A new poll conducted on behalf of the campaign by pollster Lake Research Partners shows Darcy now leading Dave Reichert 47% to 40% in the hotly contested race for Washington’s 8th Congressional District. And this comes on the heels of yesterday’s DCCC poll showing Darcy with a 49% to 44% lead.

I’m sure Reichert fans will self-soothe themselves with the notion that this is just an internal poll, but as I mentioned yesterday, campaigns are not in the business of deceiving themselves. In fact, this represents a substantial turnaround from previous Burner campaign internal polls, which have never once before shown her with a lead. The partisan propaganda part of internal polling comes not from how they are conducted, but rather, from whether or not they are publicly released. And there’s a damn good reason the Burner camp is releasing this poll, as the internals are just as promising as the top line.

No doubt this race is far from over, and will likely come down to a point or two in either direction, but the gloom and doomers who had already written off this race based on polls conducted during the now deflated Palin bounce better start rewriting their post mortems. Given sufficient resources and effective messaging, Darcy is in a position to win this race. So if you haven’t already given all that you can toward turning WA-08 blue for the first time, well, ever… please give to Darcy today.

UNCONFIRMED TIDBIT: Reliable sources tell me there is another, as yet unreleased private poll that shows Darcy with a small lead over Reichert. I’ll publish details if I can track it down.

UPDATE: I don’t know if this is the third “poll” I’ve been hearing about, as it’s not really one per se, but a source with the Washington State Labor Council confirms that they are doing phone ID work in preparation for their GOTV efforts, and that among union members, Burner is above 50% and Reichert is down around 38%. Not a scientific poll, but encouraging nonetheless.

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Seattle is soooooooo arrogant. They truly believe Boeing has no options. People like Darcy Burner are Arrogant Fools!

Boeing is headed for a Right-To-Work state with much better cost-of-living. All the taxes, transportation debacles, costly light rail proposals…all add to the cost of living. Plus, you KLOWNS are determined to kill the Construction Industry. Boeing isn’t stupid. Look for Gregoire to make HUGE last minute concessions in a desperate attempt to keep Boeing here….just like Locke did. Locke gave away Waaaaaaaaaaaay more than he had to if only he had stepped up sooner. Where is Gregoire on this Boeing catastrophe?? Busy dreaming up more ways to sue Rossi?? Fools.

Seems that Obama is going to have coat tails. Darcy is qualified candidate and Sheriff Dave, well, not so much. These polls tend to get more accurate as the election draws near. I am sure that Dave knows this too.

I found klake (Roger, this is for you). He is posting over at the PI in the blog attached to Horsey’s cartoon. Which you can see here for now.

Well Mr. Horsey you too like to create satires and love to stereotype others. Let’s introduce a little race baiting, and someone taking advantage of an innocent little white girl. Now do you really believe all of McCain supports really believe what you suggest? But there are people out there who embrace that mind set but McCain does not embrace them.

Second: David lots of people live in Muslim countries have people who don’t embrace America. Now not all Muslims hate America like you and some of your friends today. Those Socialist Democrats today would like to stereotype the Republicans as embracing that type of mind set, but most of McCain supporters would differ with you.

Third: The listless life in Hawaii and enjoying a little bit of inhaling that the Clintons did not do in their youth. Everybody likes to stereotype your crowd as being high on something, so we come to accept your short comings.

Fourth: This could be what you want us to deflect from, because if it’s true you would have a problem painting us a picture. “After attending two East Coast elitist colleges, He moved to Chicago where he fell under the spell of an America-Hating black preacher and a notorious domestic terrorist…” WOW! That’s sure a mouth full Horsey. Question David did he go to colleges on the East coast that is ran by elitist? We all can’t argue that he lived in Chicago, but his many friends do create a lightning rod. The real question Horsey did he come under the influence of his many shady friends? To pull that act off would mean he could walk on water, a trick I couldn’t accomplish. Now Horsey you might enlighten us on his association with William Ayers, Tony Rezko, ACORN, and his mentoring from Jeremiah Wright? Horsey crowd is now FOGGING us about what Barak Hussein Obama really represents today.

Fifth is a little bit off for you Horsey with Obama wearing the 666 on his forehead. Trying to stereotype the Christians and referencing the book of Revelation. With that statement, “And now, having mesmerized vast crowds with his silver tongue. This exotic celebrity who shares none of your values wants to be your President!” Now you are really stretching everybody’s imagination with that remark. Horsey could you be referring to Obama as Adolf Hitler in the thirties, and his silver tongue? What values and principle did Adolf have that Obama doesn’t embrace today? Adolf wanted to be Chancellor of Germany, Obama want to President of the United States, both mesmerized the vast crowds with their silver tongues. Question Horsey do they really have different values and principles that we don’t share? Now you are really confused like many others when you dispense your satires about Obama. Horsey maybe you should clear the fog about why we should be very afraid of Barak Hussein Obama?

I’m David Horsey and I’m ashamed to be delivering the shameful piece of artwork. God please forgive me for preaching these deceptions to your followers. Please help me to be more clairvoyant in the future. Amen!

So this piece of crap did not go unchallenged by someone, like Roger, who has figured klake out.

Posted by Zephyr77 at 10/14/08 10:14 p.m.

klake…

Good grief…you whine and cry about Horsey NEVER drawing anything derogatory about Obama so when he does pen a cartoon that caters (if memory serves) to just about everything you’ve ever accused Obama of in your ramblings, you whine and cry about that!

But you are a legend…in your own mind.

Roger ran him off from here and he found a new home. He does seem to be a glutton for abuse.

So what is the problem with Boeing? They want to ship jobs overseas just so they can make even more profit? They want to bribe the Pentagon again? They used to be a well run company that was a pillar of the community – now all they are doing is looking for the biggest buck for the executives. They already have every tax break in the book in Washington. do they need even more to stay here?

Cost of living – you mean the housing prices in other places like Texas have plummeted to zero? Guess we are lucky to live in Washington where our houses are still worth something.

Yup, cynical I would be glad if you left for Texas – we have too many idiots in Washington as it is.

cnr– Are you clueless as to the impact Boeing leaving would have on Washington’s Economy and Tax Base?? Apparently so. You must be a Government Workers…who has seniority so you won’t be among the 8,000–10,000 that will be laid off. More like 15-20,000 if Boeing leaves.

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